The NET-2000 shooting net rod is a device that uses compressed air to fire a 52 square foot net at fleeing crooks from up to 49 feet away. If you’re a Spiderman fan and have always wished to become a super hero, this is the chance you’ve been waiting for to impersonate our web-launching friend.
The NET-2000 is available at Chinagrabber for only $419, but before buying one, check with your local police department to see if carrying this kind of device around is legal!
According to Apple’s newest iPhone ad, the iPhone “makes remote blogging easier and faster”. Do you agree?
Edit: Long time reader Ed answered our question via a post on his blog. I invite you all to check it out and leave a comment if you agree with him or not.
We here at GeeksAreSexy aren’t really into bedazzled electronics like those Lindsay Lohan types. In fact, we pretty much despise anything pink, sparkly, or alive. This Wii is pretty cool though.
It was originally awarded to winners of Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers Brawl tournament and was created by Crystal Icing. It will run you about $4,000 but might never be available for sale due to the unique nature of its design. Surely if you really do want one of these, a quick email and some credit card information later, your friends will be laughing at you.
Or you can man up, buy a Wii and an airbrush, then get to work. Of course you can always just play games on it and stuff.
The Brawl to End Them All… [via Kotaku]
Tags: bedazzle, super smash brothers, swarovski, wii
Every now and again some obscure computer manufacturer releases a feat of hardware engineering so awesome, that it can only be purchased for about the same price as a down payment on your new house.
The XCP is packed with twin quad-core CPU’s running at 3.2GHz and is capable of utilizing up to four graphics cards. No details yet regarding the hard drive space or RAM situation, however, a cool $20,000 tag says it will probably be sufficient for your needs. It’s all stuffed into a case designed solely for the purpose of cooling the components with liquid nitrogen and just happens to look like something out of Galactica.
It doesn’t seem as if the price is justified though considering you can probably build the same thing sans nitrogen for a few thousand if not less. Nitrogen cooling isn’t exactly new to the world of computing as overclockers and PC enthusiasts have been doing it for years. Granted, their systems are probably far more dangerous. It’s pretty cool if you think about it though, considering the short list of people who can proudly say that they own a computer cooled by an unstable chemical substance. Water-cooling eat your heart out.
Hit the link for a few more pictures and a nice description of the story behind this monster.
Armari’s super computer-in-a-box seeks to reinvigorate industry
By Mark O’Neill
Wikipedia has always been my number one reference source (where else can you find out everything you need to know about Eric Cartman?) but it is an absolute bitch when it comes to printing off articles. First you have to find a way to remove all the images (up to now I have been using the Firefox extension Aardvark which works reasonably well) plus you have all the links messing the text up. Not exactly the nicest way to print off articles and pass them off as your own work at college (OK, THAT was a joke before anyone starts ganging up on me in the comments!).
This is where Lexisum enters the picture. By entering your search term on the site, the relevant Wikipedia page can be brought up and you can specify your print style. You can preview what it will look like and if you like what you see, you can then hit the print button. It will then spit out a nicely printed version of the page – minus images and minus links.
To give you an idea of what it is like, here is the Lexisum version of the first paragraph of the Nicholas II Wikipedia page :
By Mark O’Neill
“Don’t make me angry….you won’t like me when I’m angry”
Those words sum up my childhood in a flash. When I wasn’t watching Knight Rider, I was watching David Banner go all green in the Incredible Hulk, smashing things up and making reporter Jack McGee wet himself. So when Ang Lee brought the Hulk to the big screen in 2003, I was immensely disappointed at how bad it was.
But good news is in store for Hulk fans. A re-make is coming out this year starring Edward Norton as David Banner and Liv Tyler as Betty Ross, Banner’s girlfriend and scientific colleague.
As you will see in the following trailer, it looks MUCH better than the pile of trash starring Eric Bana.
By Mark O’Neill
Notch another one up to the Brits. In true “Total Recall” style, a security camera has been developed which can “detect weapons, drugs, liquids, and explosives hidden under people’s clothing from up to 80 feet away”.
“ThruVision, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, created the T5000 camera which uses passive imaging technology to identify objects through their emission of natural electromagnetic rays. Apparently, people and objects emit low levels of electromagnetic radiation that can pass through walls and clothing, and the T5000 camera can distinguish the different types of T-ray waves without exposing a person to harmful radiation associated with X-ray screening. ”
But kinky voyeurs shouldn’t go rushing to the airport to apply for security jobs. If and when these machines ever go online, they are designed to NOT show anatomical parts of the body. Damn. The US military is also apparently testing the technology.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
Have a look at what the marketing folks at Pontiac / GM came up with to present one of the coolest-looking car they ever manufactured, the Pontiac G8 GT. The idea of using Spy Hunter, a video game from the 80’s, to advertise the G8 is absolutely brilliant, as the target-market for this particular car are people who started playing games in this era, just like me. Enjoy!
There is a reason for information security and best practices. Ignoring things like setting strong passwords and having an account lockout policy will have perilous consequences. Just ask the 10,000 applicants to Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who had their personal information, including their social security numbers, uploaded to Bit Torrent. That data is there because the Harvard server admin used an easily guessable password.
From the AP here:
Harvard says about 10,000 of last year’s applicants may have had their personal information compromised, with 6,600 having their Social Security numbers exposed.
The school says it will provide the applicants with free identity theft recovery services and help them with credit monitoring and fraud alerts.
The details of the hack were posted last month at Torrent Freak here:
A Harvard University website has become the victim of a major security breach. A torrent currently tracked by The Pirate Bay which links to a 125mb .zip file, claims to be the backup from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website.
The backup contains three other major database files and a .NFO file included with the release says in broken English: “Maybe you don’t like it but this is to demonstrate that persons like tgatton(admin of the server) in they don’t know how to secure a website.”
A file included with the release labeled password.txt carries a message:
Thomas gatton….stupid people, you don’t use a secure password.
This appears to be a reference to Thomas Gatton, Systems Administrator and User Support Specialist at Harvard.
It’s one thing to be rejected by an Ivy League School. Its quite another for the Ivy League School to allow you to become the victim of identity theft.
Tags: bit torrent, hackers, harvard